Join Date Dec Posts Share Share this post on Digg Del. Wong this Post! Join Date Jan Posts Re: whats the point of Prophetic Prism? The "point" of it is to fix your mana. Note that its ability costs 1 generic mana, and what you get back can be mana of any color.
This means you can pay for its ability using white, blue, black, red, green, or even colorless mana. Then, in return, you get one mana of any other color. So, obviously, Prophetic Prism is pretty useless in a monocolor deck. However, let's say your deck uses 3 or more colors. In that case, you would use Prophetic Prism to help you get the right colors of mana.
We are a two colored deck that rarely struggles to produce the colors of mana we need, so Prism's activated ability has little relevance. Alchemist's Vial also has a semi-relevant ability that does come in handy from time to time. But again, we're primarily looking to recycle the ETB effect of these two cards. The creature package is filled out with cards that further push the bounce theme of the deck and also help us achieve the conditions required to cast both Battle Screech and Prismatic Strands for their flashback costs:.
Sure, we'll take a steady stream of Clue tokens from Thraben Inspector if we can get 'em! Palace Sentinels is an interesting inclusion in the deck. If for some reason our opponent "becomes the Monarch", we can simply bounce and recast Palace Sentinels and snatch it right back! Seeker of the Way is new to the deck thanks to it's recent downshift in rarity from Uncommon to Common in Iconic Masters.
The deck not only packs a good amount of noncreature spells to trigger prowess for Seeker of the Way , but remember, those artifacts we're bouncing are noncreature spells too! Trust me, Burn players do not want our Seeker of the Way s sticking on the battlefield! Getting back to Prophetic Prism Another neat thing about Pauper Affinity is that we have access to a notoriously powerful cycle of lands from Mirrodin :.
As you may have noticed by now, Affinity is a four and sometimes five color deck. But look at our mana base… zero dual lands! These artifact lands are not nearly good enough on their own to provide consistency. Which leads us to All three of these cards cater to the intense mana requirements of the deck by offering some form of mana-fixing. And, we can use them to feed our hungry Atog s! Springleaf Drum provides some useful mana ramp. To round up the rest of Affinity, we're an all-in artifact deck that aims to pressure the opponent by quickly building a board of solid threats:.
We're able to frequently cast our affinity creatures, Frogmite and Myr Enforcer for little-to-no mana thanks to our density of artifacts. When the deck gets rolling, it snowballs out of control. What usually ends up happening is that we either steamroll our opponent with the above creatures, or the game stalls out at which point we can go over the top with an all-in Fling - Atog attempt! A couple weeks ago in the first Pauper Spellbook article, we got to see a glimpse of the importance of Prophetic Prism in the Dinrova 5 Color Tron deck.
Well, it just so happens that there's a few variations of Tron that float on the fringe of Pauper playability, and guess what they all have in common Let's try and pull this whole thing together with a trio of Tron variants that use the multifaceted artifact. What we have here are three variations of Tron, two of which are modestly based around only two colors. But still, each deck packs a full playset of Prophetic Prism.
Simply put, the mana-fixing capability of Prophetic Prism alone is crucial to the success of a deck that mainly relies on 12 land cards that produce colorless mana. And when compared to the alternatives, cards like Unknown shores and Evolving wilds do not provide the added value of drawing us a card the way Prism does. Those of you who are seasoned Pauper players surely know how important Prophetic Prism is to the format. But for everyone just gaining interest in Pauper, I'd be willing to bet you would have never guessed that Prophetic Prism was an essential card in the format.
Prism is utilized by so many different decks and for a variety of reasons, making the card a very interesting case study in relation to what Pauper is all about.
That being said, Prophetic Prism is certainly one of the top cards in my Pauper Spellbook. Let me know what you think! What other decks in Pauper make use of Prophetic Prism?
Are there similar or better options I've overlooked? As always, all comments are welcome, thank you so much for reading, and have a great one! If you enjoy this content, please help support me with a quick follow on Twitter - WallofOmens. More on MTGGoldfish Pauper Spellbook: Chainer's Edict. Aug 8 by John Messner. Nov 13 by TheAsianAvenger.
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